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CFP: "The Democratization of Hacking and Making" - New Media & Society special issue

by Eddan Katz

Call For Papers: Special Issue of New Media & Society on the Democratization of Hacking & Making Research on hacker culture has historically focused on a relatively narrow set of activities and practices related to open-source software, political protest, and criminality. Scholarship on making has generally been defined as hands-on work with a connection to craft. By contrast, “hacking” and “making” in the current day are increasingly inroads to a more diverse range of activities, industries, and groups. They may show a strong cultural allegiance or map new interpretations and trajectories. These developments prompt us to revisit central questions: does the use of hacking/making terminologies carry with them particular valences? Are they deeply rooted in technologies, ideologies or cultures? Are they best examined through certain intellectual traditions? Can they be empowering to participants, or are they merely buzzwords that have been diluted and co-opted by governmental and business entities? What barriers to entry and participation exist? The current issue explores and questions the growing diversity of uses stemming from this turn of hacking towards more popular uses and democratic contexts. Submissions that employ novel methodological and theoretical perspectives to understand this turn in hacking are encouraged. They should explore new opportunities for conversations and consider hacking as rooted in a specific phenomena, culture, environment, practice or movement. Criteria for admission in this special issue include rigor of analysis, caliber of interpretation, and relevance of conclusions. Topics may include: Disparities of access and representation, such as gender, race and ethnicity Open-access environments for learning and production, such as hacker and maker spaces “Civic hacking” and open data movements on city, state and national levels Integration of hacking and making within industries Historical analyses of making/hacking such as phreaking and amateur computing Popularization of terms like “hacker” in newspapers, magazines and other publications Open-source hardware and software movements Appropriation of technology Hacking in non-western contexts, such as the global south and China Political implications of a popular shift in hacker/maker culture Please email 400 word abstract proposals, along with a short author biography, by May 1, 2014 to aschrock(a)usc.edu and jhunsinger(a)wlu.ca. Final selected articles will be due during September 2014 and will undergo peer review. _______________________________________________

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Fwd: [A2k] Sign-on Letter -- Against life + 70 year copyright term in the TPP

by eddan.com

> From: Manon Ress <manon.ress(a)keionline.org> > Date: December 4, 2013 at 6:30:29 PM PST > To: a2k discuss list <a2k(a)lists.keionline.org> > Subject: [A2k] Sign-on Letter -- Against life + 70 year copyright term in the TPP > > From: Krista L. Cox <krista.cox(a)keionline.org> > Date: Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:09 PM > > > Dear All, > > Here is a sign-on letter opposing a copyright term of life plus seventy > years in the TPP. This will be a political issue at the TPP Ministerial in > Singapore which begins on December 7. If you'd like to sign on, please > send me an e-mail letting me know ASAP. > > Best, > Krista > > http://keionline.org/nolifeplus70intpp > > This is sign-on Letter -- Against life+ 70 year copyright term in the TPP. > See end of letter for details on how to sign. > > <-------------------begin letter----------- > December 9, 2013 > > Dear TPP negotiators > > In a December 7-10 meeting in Singapore you will be asked to endorse a > binding obligation to grant copyright protection for 70 years after the > death of an author. We urge you to reject the life+ 70 year term for > copyright. > > There is no benefit to society of extending copyright beyond the 50 years > mandated by the WTO. While some TPP countries, like the USA, Mexico, Peru, > Chile or Australia, already have life+ 70 (or longer) copyright terms, > there is growing recognition that such terms were a mistake, and should be > shortened, or modified by requiring formalities for the extended periods. > > The primary harm from the life+ 70 copyright term is the loss of access to > countless books, newspapers, pamphlets, photographs, films, sound > recordings and other works that are “owned” but largely not commercialized, > forgotten, and lost. The extended terms are also costly to consumers and > performers, while benefiting persons and corporate owners that had nothing > to do with the creation of the work. > > Life+70 is a mistake, and it will be an embarrassment to enshrine this > mistake into the largest regional trade agreement ever negotiated. > > Sincerely, > > ---------end letter--------> > > To sign, fill out this information and mailto:krista.cox@keionline.org > Names __________________________ > Organization (if any): _______________________ > City, State and Country _______________________________________ > Email Address: _____________________________________ > Optional: Comments, if any on this issue (for an annex to the letter). > > > -- > Krista L. Cox > Staff Attorney > Knowledge Ecology International > www.keionline.org > (202) 332-2670 > > > > -- > Manon Ress, Ph.D. > Knowledge Ecology International, KEI > manon.ress(a)keionline.org, tel.: +1 202 332 2670 > www.keionline.org > _______________________________________________ > A2k mailing list > A2k(a)lists.keionline.org > http://lists.keionline.org/mailman/listinfo/a2k_lists.keionline.org

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Queensland, Australia: May 8-9 2014 - Defining the Sensor Society

by eddan.com

> From: Mark Burdon <m.burdon(a)law.uq.edu.au> > Date: December 4, 2013 at 9:33:45 PM PST > To: "privacy(a)lists.efa.org.au" <privacy(a)lists.efa.org.au> > Subject: [PRIVACY] UQ Privacy Awareness Week Conference, May 8-9 2014 - Defining the Sensor Society > > Hi All > > The University of Queensland’s Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies and the TC Beirne School of Law are hosting a conference on 8-9 May 2014 called ‘Defining the Sensor Society’. The conference is about the use of everyday devices which now permeate our work, social, leisure, and domestic lives and the emerging “sensor society” in which information collection about us and our environments is ubiquitous and continuous. Details of the conference and the call for papers are here - http://cccs.uq.edu.au/sensor-society > > Registration is $100 and $50 for RHD students. Keynotes to be announced shortly. > > Hope you can make it and please circulate to anyone you think maybe interested. > > Kind regards > > Mark > > > Dr Mark Burdon > Lecturer > > > Telephone: +61 7 3365 8597 | Fax: +61 7 3365 1454 | http://www.law.uq.edu.au/academic-staff/staff.php?nm=markburdon > The University of Queensland | Brisbane QLD 4072 | Australia > CRICOS Provider Number 00025B. THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT. >

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digital rights comments on Copyright Green Paper

by Eddan Katz

> Future of Music Coalition: > > http://futureofmusic.org/filing/fmc-filing-uspto-internet-policy-task-force… > > > -- > Casey Rae > Interim Executive Director > Future of Music Coalition > > Adjunct Prof. > Communications, Culture & Technology > Georgetown University > > o: 202-822-2051 > c: 301-642-6210 > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Teri Karobonik <teri(a)newmediarights.org> wrote: > From New Media Rights. > > Teri Karobonik > Staff Attorney Fellow--New Media Rights > p:619-591-8870 > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Timothy Vollmer <timothy.vollmer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > from Creative Commons > http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Commerce_Dept_Green_Paper_2013 > tvol > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Corynne McSherry <corynne(a)eff.org> wrote: > Stanford CIS/EFF's > > > > ********************************* > Corynne McSherry > Intellectual Property Director, EFF > 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 > 415-436-9333 x 122 > > Help EFF protect your rights! www.eff.org/join > > On Nov 13, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Matt Schruers wrote: > >> CCIA's. >> >

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[Berkman-webcast] Sara Boettinger: Re-Thinking Intellectual Property Rights Models for the Poor (12/10)

by Eddan Katz

> > > > Upcoming Events / Digital Media December 4th, 2013 > Remember to load images if you have trouble seeing parts of this email. Or click here to view the web version of this newsletter. > The Berkman Center is currently accepting applications for our fellowship program for the 2014-2015 academic year. The deadline is this coming Monday, 12/8! Apply now! > berkman luncheon series > Re-Thinking IPR Models for the Poor > > Tuesday, December 10, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor. This event will be webcast live. > > > We are depending on new technologies to meet the challenges ahead for our planet. Facing a growing population, resource constraints, climate change and a global food system under stress, we are pinning our hopes on new technology. But we don’t do a good job of leveraging our innovation systems to impact the poor. 780 million still lack access to clean water. 1/5 of humanity lives without electricity. 80% of sub-Saharan Africa is farmed with a hand-hoe. IPR is the fundamental driver of innovation, but donors, practitioners and policymakers are more divided than ever in their views on how IPR can be used to impact the poor. Sara Boettiger will discuss the need to re-think existing models (e.g. patent pools, clearinghouses, humanitarian use licensing), re-invent our research agenda and work to shift the international debate. > > Sara Boettiger is Senior Advisor at Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and Assistant Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley. She is co-founder of four non-profits centered on the application of technology to meet the challenges of global poverty, including: PIPRA, Global Access in Action, GATD and AgPartnerXChange. RSVP Required. more information on our website> > > video/audio > Kate Darling on Near-term Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues in Robotics > > > > Prominent robot ethics questions focus on liability and privacy concerns in the face of increasingly autonomous technology. A lesser-discussed issue is the emergence and effect of robots that are designed to interact with humans on a social level. Studies have begun to establish a tendency to perceive social robots differently than we do other objects. As more and more robotic companions enter into our lives and homes, our inclination to project life-like qualities onto robots could have some societal implications. Kate Darling -- IP Research Specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab and a Ph.D. candidate in Intellectual Property and Law & Economics at the ETH Zurich -- discusses some of the more interesting developments in the world of robot/human interaction, and where we might find ourselves in the coming decades. audio on our website> > > Other Events of Note > > Local, national, international, and online events that may be of interest to the Berkman community: > > 12/5: Long-Form Journalism: Behind the Scenes at The Atlantic (MIT Communications Forum) > 12/6: Compassion and Technology Conference (Stanford) > 12/6: D. Fox Harrell reads from and discusses Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression (Harvard University) > 12/13: Library Test Kitchen Open House (Harvard GSD) > 12/18: Bruce Schneier at the CRCS Lunch Seminar (Harvard CRCS) > You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the Berkman Center's Weekly Events Newsletter. Sign up to receive this newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. To manage your subscription preferences, please click here. > > Connect & get involved: Jobs, internships, and more > > See our events calendar if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. > > > The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. For more information, visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu.

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Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) 2014 {1/22-24/14} Brussels, Belgium

by Eddan Katz

Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) 7th international conference European Data Protection: Reloading Data Protection 22-23-24 January 2014 http://www.cpdpconferences.org/Programme.html > Every year in Brussels, CPDP gathers policy makers, academics, computer scientists, consultants, practitioners and activists from all over the world to exchange ideas and discuss emerging issues in information technology, privacy, data protection and law. > CPDP has been growing progressively since its inception in terms of speakers, participants and panels. Ambitions for CPDP 2014 are higher than ever, and we aim to stage more than 40 panels and workshops (with a stimulating mix of academics, practitioners, regulators and advocates), as well as multiple side events (such as open debates, Pecha-Kucha performances and artistic interventions). > > CPDP is a non profit platform originally founded in 2007 by research groups from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Université de Namur and Tilburg University. The platform was joined by the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique and the Fraunhofer Institut für System und Innovationsforschung. For CPDP 2013, these conference partners have been joined by yet more outstanding institutions, including: TU Berlin, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, the University of Leiden, the University of Passau and the University of Amsterdam. In addition, CPDP2014 welcomes the KU Leuven as a new European partner and is also proud to welcome a number of prestigious American partners, including: Capital University, Berkeley, University of Main and Fordham University. >

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[fki-announce@freeknowledge.eu}: CfP PETS 2014 Amsterdam

by Eddan Katz

Begin forwarded message: > From: Announcements of the Free Knowledge Institute <fki-announce(a)freeknowledge.eu> > Subject: CfP PETS 2014 in Amsterdam > Date: December 3, 2013 11:16:03 AM PST > To: fki-announce(a)freeknowledge.eu > Reply-To: fki-announce(a)freeknowledge.eu > > Dear all, > > Please find below the Call for Papers for the Privacy Enhancing > Technologies Symposium, to be held in Amsterdam July 16-18. I am > honoured to be the General Chair! We hope you all find this an > opportunity to free up your agenda's and attend. See you there? > > Best, > > Hinde. > > ======================================================== > PETS 2014: 14th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium > July 16-18, 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands > http://petsymposium.org/ > CALL FOR PAPERS > ======================================================== > > The Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) aims to advance the > state of the art and foster a world-wide community of researchers and > practitioners to discuss innovation and new perspectives. > > PETS seeks paper submissions for its 14th event to be held in Amsterdam, > July 16–18, 2014. Papers should present novel practical and/or > theoretical research into the design, analysis, experimentation, or > fielding of privacy-enhancing technologies. While PETS has traditionally > been home to research on anonymity systems and privacy-oriented > cryptography, we strongly encourage submissions in a number of both > well-established and some emerging privacy-related topics. Some > suggested topics are listed below. > > IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines are firm): > Abstract registration deadline: February 10, 2014, 23:59 GMT > Paper submission deadline: February 13, 2014, 23:59 GMT > Author notification: April 13, 2014 > Camera-ready deadline: May 4, 2014 > Symposium: July 16–18, 2014 > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST (Suggested topics include but are not restricted to): > - Behavioral targeting > - Building and deploying privacy-enhancing systems > - Crowdsourcing for privacy > - Cryptographic tools for privacy > - Data protection technologies > - Differential privacy > - Economics of privacy and game-theoretical approaches to privacy > - Forensics and privacy > - Information leakage, data correlation and generic attacks to privacy > - Interdisciplinary research connecting privacy to economics, law, > ethnography, psychology, medicine, biotechnology > - Location and mobility privacy > - Measuring and quantifying privacy > - Obfuscation-based privacy > - Policy languages and tools for privacy > - Privacy and human rights > - Privacy in ubiquitous computing and mobile devices > - Privacy in cloud and big-data applications > - Privacy in social networks and micro-blogging systems > - Privacy-enhanced access control, authentication, and identity management > - Profiling and data mining > - Reliability, robustness, and abuse prevention in privacy systems > - Surveillance > - Systems for anonymous communications and censorship resistance > - Traffic analysis > - Transparency enhancing tools > - Usability and user-centered design for PETs > > GENERAL CHAIR (gc14(a)petsymposium.org): > Hinde ten Berge, Free Knowledge Institute > > PROGRAM CHAIRS (pets14-chairs(a)petsymposium.org): > Emiliano De Cristofaro, University College London > Steven Murdoch, University of Cambridge > > PROGRAM COMMITTEE: > Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University > Erman Ayday, EPFL > Kelly Caine, Clemson University > Jan Camenisch, IBM Zurich > Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich > Claude Castelluccia, INRIA Rhone-Alpes > Kostas Chatzikokolakis, Lix Ecole Polytechnique > Graham Cormode, University of Warwick > Roberto Di Pietro, Universita' di Roma Tre > Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research > Claudia Diaz, KU Leuven > Zekeriya Erkin, TU Delft > Paul Francis, MPI-SWS > Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo > Rachel Greenstadt, Drexel University > Amir Herzberg, Bar Ilan University > Nick Hopper, University of Minnesota > Amir Houmansadr, UT Austin > Rob Jansen, Naval Research Laboratory > Dali Kaafar, NICTA & INRIA Rhone-Alpes > Apu Kapadia, Indiana University, Bloomington > Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt > Negar Kiyavash, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign > Markulf Kohlweiss, Microsoft Research > Adam Lee, University of Pittsburgh > Brian Levine, University of Massachussets, Amherst > Marc Liberatore, University of Massachussets, Amherst > Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research > Nick Mathewson, The Tor Project > Prateek Mittal, Princeton > Arvind Narayanan, Princeton > Claudio Orlandi, Aarhus University > Micah Sherr, Georgetown University > Reza Shokri, ETH Zurich > Radu Sion, Stony Brook University > Paul Syverson, Naval Research Laboratory > Gene Tsudik, UC Irvine > Eugene Vasserman, Kansas State University > Matthew Wright, UT Arlington > > PUBLICITY CHAIR (ctroncoso(a)gradiant.org): > Carmela Troncoso, Grandiant > > HotPETs CHAIRS (hotpets14(a)petsymposium.org): > Kelly Caine, Clemson University > Prateek Mittal, Princeton > Reza Shokri, ETH Zurich > > > SUBMISSION GUIDELINES > Papers to be submitted to the PET Symposium must be at most 20 pages > (including the bibliography), plus optional appendices of at most 10 > pages. PC members are not required to read the appendices, which will > not be included in the final proceedings and should only be used to > support evidence of paper’s technical validity, e.g., for detailed > security proofs. Papers must conform to the Springer LNCS style (in > which the text area per page is a little smaller than 5" x 7 3/4"). > Follow the "Information for Authors" link at > http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Also, all papers must be > anonymized (more information below). Papers not following these > instructions risk being rejected without consideration of their merits. > Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have > been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a > conference with proceedings. > > SUBMISSION > Papers will need to be submitted via the PETS 2014 EasyChair submission > server at: > https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=pets2014. > > ANONYMIZATION OF SUBMISSIONS > All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance > through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are > withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to make a > good-faith effort to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at > the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related > past work, including your own. Minimally, please take the following > steps when preparing your submission: > > - Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page. > - Remove acknowledgment of identifying names and funding sources. > - Use care in referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not > omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable > to grasp the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third > person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. > > ETHICS > Papers describing experiments with users or user data (e.g., network > traffic, passwords, social network information), should follow the basic > principles of ethical research, e.g., beneficence (maximizing the > benefits to an individual or to society while minimizing harm to the > individual), minimal risk (appropriateness of the risk versus benefit > ratio), voluntary consent, respect for privacy, and limited deception. > Authors are encouraged to contact PC chairs before submitting to clarify > any doubts. Also, authors may be asked to include explanation of how > ethical principles were followed in their final papers should questions > arise during the review process. > > COPYRIGHT > Proceedings will be published by Springer and made available at the > symposium. By submitting a paper, you agree that if it is accepted, you > will sign a paper distribution agreement allowing for publication, and > also that an author of the paper will register for the symposium and > present the paper there. Our current working agreement with Springer is > that authors will retain copyright on their own works while assigning an > exclusive 3-year distribution license to Springer. Authors may still > post their papers on their own Web sites. For the 2010 version of this > agreement, see: http://petsymposium.org/2010/2010-springer-form.pdf > > BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD > The Andreas Pftzmann PETS 2014 Best Student Paper Award will be selected > at PETS 2014. Papers written solely or primarily by a student who is > presenting the work at PETS 2014 are eligible for the award. > > HotPETs > As with the last several years, part of the symposium will be devoted to > HotPETs – the “hottest”, most exciting research ideas still in a > formative state. See the HotPETs CfP for more information at > http://petsymposium.org/2014/hotpets.php > > -- > Hinde ten Berge > IM/phone on request > > Free Knowledge Institute | Unlocking the Knowledge Society > http://freeknowledge.eu/ > > Free Technology Academy | Online education about Free Software > http://ftacademy.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > FKI-announce mailing list > http://mail.freeknowledge.eu/mailman/listinfo/fki-announce > > To unsubscribe send a message to: fki-announce-leave(a)freeknowledge.eu > > For more info: http://freeknowledge.eu

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CC 4.0: It's here

by Eddan Katz

> > > > Celebrate 4.0. Support CC. > > Today is a big day. > > After two years in development, we’re pleased to unveil Version 4.0 of the Creative Commons license suite. > > You can now visit the CC website to get your new license. While you’re there, please consider making a gift of $25 to carry Creative Commons into 2014. > > More than any CC license before, Version 4.0 reflects the power of our global community. We have spent the past six years working with hundreds of volunteers worldwide — literally, some of the best minds in copyright law and open licensing on the planet — to translate and adapt CC licenses to local laws in more than 60 countries. In the process, we’ve learned a lot about how our licenses work internationally. > > That is why Version 4.0 is the most internationally enforceable set of licenses to date. 4.0 won’t need to be adapted for use in every country. It just works. Everywhere. > > These licenses are a symbol of the dedication and diversity of the Creative Commons community, a community that you join when you license or use content under CC licenses. We’re glad to be on Team Open with you. > > Be proud of what we’ve accomplished together. Make a donation to support Creative Commons. > > > > (To opt-out of any future mailings such as these from Creative Commons, simply send a message to this address: mailto:civicrm+o.1116.737324.535208418f788ff8@creativecommons.org) > > > 444 Castro Street, Suite 900 > Mountain View, CA > 94303 > United States >

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{article} New Media & Society: Discourse Architecture, Ideology, and Democratic Norms in Online Political Discussion, by Deen Freelon

by Eddan Katz

> From: sage_contents_alert(a)alerts.stanford.edu > Subject: New Media & Society OnlineFirst > Date: December 2, 2013 11:29:53 PM PST > To: <eddank(a)aya.yale.edu> > > > > > Article > Discourse architecture, ideology, and democratic norms in online political discussion > Deen Freelon > New Media & Society published 2 December 2013, 10.1177/1461444813513259 > http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1461444813513259v1 ABSTRACT Studies of political discussions online have been dominated by approaches that focus exclusively on deliberation, ignoring other equally relevant communication norms. This study conducts a normative assessment of discussion spaces in two prominent web platforms—Twitter hashtags and newspaper comment sections devoted to particular political issues—applying the norms of communitarianism, liberal individualism, and deliberation. The platforms’ distinct design features and users’ left/right issue stances emerge as significant predictors of normative differences.

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